...I love having back and forth conversations with my internet friends who post comments...
...well...my dear friend Elizabeth (who blogs at
Bits of Sunshine) and I were chatting back and forth about my beautiful Kitchenaid mixer that I got for my birthday...
...and I mentioned that I'd not
EVEN used it yet...and she asked me what I was going to make for it's inaugural employment...and I said that I thought I'd make a German Chocolate Cake...
...and so I was searching the internet for vegan recipes...and I found out a lot of trivial information about German Chocolate...did you know that it was originally German's Chocolate...way back in the 1800's...and that it had a low cocoa content...hence the milky coloured German Chocolate cakes of my youth...anywhoo...fascinating
Wiki article here...
...but Elizabeth who seems to know me all too well...suggested this one...from
The Pretty Bee...
...now...I didn't have any gluten free flour in the house...so I just used regular flour...and it turned out perfectly...
...I had looked at several other recipes...and chose this one because of the rich, dark looking chocolate...I love dark chocolate...
...I made the sauce first...as I didn't want it to be boiling hot when the cakes were ready...
...I didn't have the Trader Joe's coconut she specifies...so I just used regular ol' grocery store coconut...it worked fine...
...and then I broke out the new mixer...so much fun!
...one more substitution...I make vinegar cakes all the time...but decided to go with my trusty flax seed goo/EnerG egg replacer for this one...
...the batter was darker than regular German Chocolate Cake batter...but probably not as dark as devils food...it was delicious though...one of the best things about vegan baking is being able to taste the batter...YUM!
...and the Man had the bright idea of swirling some of the icing into the cake...like a streusel...I was skeptical...
...but it turned out really pretty...
...so much so that I was tempted to just put the rest of the icing in the middle and leave the top bare...
...see...isn't that pretty...
...but...in the end...I went the traditional route...
...and iced the top...
...but not the sides...and arranged some hole pecans around the top...
...this cake is so delicious...what a perfect way to initiate the Kitchenaid Mixer....
~Have a lovely day!
That I could taste the cake mix had not occurred to me, yay. I remember licking the bowl out as a child before we learned eggs can have salmonella!
ReplyDeleteThat's a great looking German Chocolate Cake. Bet it does taste good. MOM
ReplyDeleteCake looks delicious but I'm a tad jealous of the Kitchen Aid...lol.
ReplyDeleteI had a huge chuckle some years back when I learned that German Chocolate Cake was NOT from Germany. I'd always thought it was weird that coconut was a primary ingredient in a German cake. Turns out, its not. Ha! I thought it was very interesting.
ReplyDeleteA very pretty cake. I'm glad you enjoyed your KAM's debut. Here is to years of yummy adventures.